Look Out Ty...

We felt like maybe we were on a home renovation show. I went over to Terry & Kathy's as soon as the boys were out of the house for school. Terry had already started taping everything off and getting furniture out of the way - we are painting Harrison's room and want to have it done - for the big reveal - when he gets home from school. Yikes!

Harrison is a big St. Louis Cardinals fan, and has been accumulating the room decor to prove it. So, Terry & Kathy have been telling him that they would re-paint his room in the Cardinals' blue/red. He's been a trooper, waiting through some of the stuff we've been doing to my house. So, we decided to surprise him. We got all the supplies the other day. I painted all the baseboards (swapping those out) at my house so they would be ready to go. Terry picked up the paint and told poor lil' Harrison that it was for my house.

Terry started trimming out the room, and I followed behind with the roller. Terry had a detour today too - Marcus was in a school competition out in Independence, so Terry went to support him. By the way, he got 2nd place for his sermon! Great work, Marcus!
I ignored my instructions to leave the trimming at the ceiling for Terry (sorry! well, kind of), and had the whole room painted with in the main blue when he returned. Yippee. Things are looking good.

Kathy wanted to swap out bed frames too, so we were painting an old metal bedframe white. This was done in the garage - toxic fumes - Mmmmmm. I painted the bedframe, while Terry worked on installing the new baseboards. We were getting nervous, 'cause time on the clock was tick-tick-ticking away!

Last little job - the red stripe! Terry taped it off and I quickly started following him with the red paint. Boy is it red! It was down to the wire, so as soon as the last strip of red was painted, we put his "new" bed together and I left to pick up Harrison from school. I needed to stall him for a few minutes, while Terry got the HUGE mess cleaned up and prepped for the big reveal. :-)

We had Kathy on the phone (she had to work, though I know she would've loved to help with the painting - right Kathy?!) so she could hear his reaction. He walked in the house and started up the stairs...he only got up a couple steps when he came running back down and gave Terry a huge hug! He spotted his freshly painted room and was soooo excited! He was all smiles while he checked everything out. It was worth the work and the rush!

Here are some pics of Harrison, sporting his Cardinals attire and chillin' in his new Cardinals room!